POEM ART THREAT

Stinky Bear Press return to Mascara Bar for an evening of poetry inspired by the knavish Mark E. Smith and his legendary band The Fall.

Readers include: Becky Cremin, Marcus Slease, Richard Barrett, Juha Virtanen, Mike Weller, Jeff Hilson, Chris McCabe, Pat Phaggs, Sarah Crewe, Pascal O’Loughlin, Amy Key, Andrew Taylor.

Others to be confirmed.

Friday, 1 March 2013. Mascara Bar 72 Stamford Hill, London, N16 6XS. More here.

New visual poetry anthology

An international visual poetry anthology edited by jörg piringer and günter vallaster (ed.): a global visuage. 16 Euros plus p & p. For information on postage, purchase etc, contact editionch@gmail.com

FeaturingL

Fernando Aguiar, Reed Altemus, Josef Bauer, Derek Beaulieu, Katja Beran, Armando Bertollo, Simon Biggs, Sergej Birjukov, Friedrich W. Block, Mila Blont, Philippe Boisnard, Brandstifter, J. R. Carpenter, John Cayley, Gerhild Ebel, elffriede.i.a., Bartolome Ferrando, Heike Fiedler, Luc Fierens, Christian Futscher, Hortense Gauthier, Harald Gsaller, Rozalie Hirs, Max Höfler, Jochen Höller, Christine Huber, Peter Huckauf, Dirk HuelsTrunk, Zuzana Husárová, Geof Huth, Gerhard Jaschke, Jhave, Ragnhildur Jóhanns, Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, Eduardo Kac, Michael Kargl, Christian Katt, Angelika Kaufmann, Ilse Kilic, Anatol Knotek, Boris Konstriktor, Márton Koppány, Sergej Kovalskij, Erika Kronabitter, Jason Lewis, Frank Milautzcki, Nick Montfort, Gertrude Moser-Wagner, Marcus Neustetter, Leszek Onak, Ottar Ormstad, Loss Pequeño Glazier, jörg piringer, Renate Pittroff, Łukasz Podgórni, Hannah Rath, a rawlings, Cia Rinne, Roza Rueb, Natascha Schalina/Andrej Stroganow, Valeri Scherstjanoi, Uwe Schloen, Helmut Schranz, Angelika Schröder, Veronika Schubert, Hannah Sideris, Hartmut Sörgel, Dieter Sperl, Petra Johanna Sturm, Daniel Temkin, Christoph Theiler, Eugenio Tisselli, Liesl Ujvary, united queendoms, Lawrence Upton, Günter Vallaster, Ted Warnell, Helen White, Fritz Widhalm, Daniel Wisser, Andrea Zámbori, Eric Zboya und Ottfried Zielke.

HI ZERO #18 CONTEMPORARY POETRY READINGS

IAN PATTERSON

Ian Patterson’s books include ‘Time to Get Here – Selected Poems 1969-2002,’ from Salt Publishing (2003), ‘Guernica and Total War,’ from Profile Books (2007) and a translation of the final volume of Proust’s ‘À la recherche du temps perdu,’ ‘Le Temps retrouvé,’ from Penguin (2003). Barque Press published the chapbook ‘The Glass Bell’ in 2009.

and

ANDREW DUNCAN

Andrew Duncan’s selected poems, ‘Anxiety Before Entering a Room,” was published by Salt in 2001; the critical collection ‘The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry’ in 2003. He has been the editor of the poetry journal Angel Exhaust since 1992.

and

RICHARD PARKER

Richard Parker is the author of ‘From the Mountain of California,’ from Openned Press (2011); he is the editor of Crater Press, a hand-bound and letter-pressed poetry pamphlet series based in London and Brighton and Turkey.

Upstairs @ THE HOPE, Queen’s Road, Brighton

7:30pm for an 8:00pm start

£4 for all

Shearsman reading

The first event in Shearsman’s 2013 Reading Series takes place on Wednesday, 9 January at 7:30 pm, and features 3 poets from the USA:

  • Melissa Buckheit
  • Maxine Chernoff
  • Jaime Robles

The venue is Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH. More details at the Shearsman site.

Blackbox Manifold Issue 9

Online now and featuring work from:

  • Sheila Black
  • Rocio Ceron, translated by Anna Rosen Guercio
  • Ray DiPalma
  • Carrie Etter
  • Glenn Frantz
  • Max Ghiara
  • Anne Gorrick
  • Paul Green
  • W.N. Herbert
  • Kate Kilalea
  • John Latta
  • Tony Lopez
  • Erín Moure
  • Jal Nicholl
  • Philip Byron Oakes
  • John Peck
  • Ian Seed
  • Aidan Semmens
  • Samantha Walton
  • Joshua Marie Wilkinson
  • John Wilkinson

and poems written for Peter Robinson by:

  • Kate Behrens
  • Adrian Blamires
  • Peter Carpenter
  • David Cooke
  • Tim Dooley
  • Roy Fisher
  • Isabel Galleymore
  • John Matthias
  • Tom Phillips

SONGS FOR ONE OCCASION – Justin Katko

36 pp 200 copies; 17.6x25cm
ISBN: 978-0-9791411-7-1
Published December 2012

Songs for One Occasion contains nine songs, variously beautiful and deformed, with a microscopic three-part novel embedded as intro, median, and outro, all of it written 2011 to 12, and Even You might buy one today at any one of the three fairly world-shattering prices that will imminently follow the colon with which you are about to be presented regardless of however long said action may theoretically be deferred ad infinitum usw, as if hate were cycling to the middle of nowhere where love cuts wit to size and back, turning itself endlessly on and on and on in Mélos Kateglytißménon that doesn’t mean anything ahorita:

Out now on Critical Documents.

FEELINGS XMAS MELTDOWN

Thursday, December 20, 2012, 8:00pm. Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB.

An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.

Poetry:
Amy De’Ath
Marianne Morris
Sophie Mayer
Jeff Hilson
Samantha Walton
!more tbc!

Film:
Liz Rosenfeld

Sad Disco:
DJ Dr Kemp